Obstacles Quotes - Page 40

• Finn regarded pesky little things like wedding bands, engagement rings, and jealous, hulking menfolk more as amusing challenges than immovable obstacles that could be hazardous to his health.

  Jennifer Estep

  Jealous, Challenges, Band

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Spider's Revenge”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.

  Wendell Berry

  Differences, Perfect, Movement

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.12, Counterpoint

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• I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

  George Eliot

  Ambition, Different, Mastery

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.499, Penguin

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• yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism

  Khaled Hosseini

  Love, Moving, People

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• Why couldn't she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow's? Why let the maybe's, the what if's, the probabilities spoil something so lovely?

  Nora Roberts

  Mistake, Creating, Worry

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• But I cheered myself up slightly with the rationalization that all new relationships - even the fictional ones - have obstacles to overcome in the beginning. I would not give up hope on this one. Not yet.

  Lauren Weisberger

  Giving Up, New Relationship, Overcoming

  Lauren Weisberger (2006). “Everyone Worth Knowing”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Wine, Roots

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• I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Mean, Men

  "King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus".

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• There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery. But there is a time, too, when you say, come dragons. I challenge you to find me.

  Justina Chen

  Memories, Dragons, Challenges

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• The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Pain, Pleasure, Swerve

  Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It’s up to you to fill it. Find things that mean something to you, that represent times where you’ve overcome an obstacle, learned something important. Put those items in the bag and they’ll help you find your strength.’ ‘I’m not sure if that’s going to help much.’ Unless I put a brick in it and nail Brandy between the eyes.

  Jana Oliver

  Mean, Eye, Important

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.207, Pan Macmillan

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• I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek money and business, and for weddings, and on pilgrimages, and the river was obstructing their path, and the ferryman's job was to get them quickly across that obstacle. But for some among thousands, a few, four or five, the river has stopped being an obstacle, they have heard its voice, they have listened to it, and the river has become sacred to them, as it has become sacred to me.

  Hermann Hesse

  Jobs, Voice, Rivers

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• …life isn’t a puzzle to be solved. It’s an adventure to be savored. Let every challenge be a new mountain to climb, not an obstacle to get in your way and stop you. Yeah, it’ll be hard, but once you reach the summit of it, you’ll be able to see the world for what it really is. And at the top, it never seems to have been as difficult a feat to climb there as you first made it out to be. Most of all, you’ll know that you beat that mountain, and that you rule it. It does not rule you.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Adventure, Challenges, Mountain

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• There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

  Jules Verne

  Stronger, Impossible

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• You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.

  Anne Lamott

  Should, Hurdle, Courses

  Anne Lamott, Sam Lamott (2012). “Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son”, p.91, Penguin

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• Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stupid, Sometimes, Reason

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.51, Scholastic UK

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• Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

  Richard Rohr

  Overcoming, Way

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• The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Ocean, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Knowledge Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1983.

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• My past was a private obstacle, not a public excuse.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Past, Excuse, My Past

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Stolen”, p.194, Vintage Canada

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• Put no obstacle in her path and this will surely die a natural death; obstruct her, and it will give the situation an importance to worth fighting for.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Fighting, Giving, Path

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.117, Macmillan

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• The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far.

  Paulo Coelho

  Giving Up, Order, Soul

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• There's no such thing as a painless lesson. They just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can't gain anything without losing something first although if you can endure that pain and walk away from it, you'll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yeah, a heart made fullmetal.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Strong, Pain, Heart

  "Fictional character: Edward". "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood", 2009-2010.

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• The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

  Enid Blyton

  Laughing, Use, Stones

  Enid Blyton (2013). “Enid Blyton Circus Collection 3 in 1”, p.104, Egmont UK

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• Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However, from time to time a great obstacle appears in our path, which was put there by God, and which is there for a reason. The reason is: to give us the opportunity to change everything, to move forwards.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moving, Opportunity, Self

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.22, Booklassic

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• We will not conquer our obstacles by running away from them. Speed does not matter, just that we do not stop.

  Pittacus Lore

  Running, Doe, Matter

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